The “standard” tool for Android app development is Android Studio. If you are unfamiliar with Android Studio then you should check out my Android Studio for beginners tutorial.

This scoped storage tutorial explains the basics devs need to know to access and write files in Android 10 upward.

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025.